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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Exec Bails: Bradley Horowitz Leaves For Google — Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division (and mentioned in a post earlier today), has accepted a position with Google, we've confirmed via a source at Yahoo. We have a message into Bradley for a comment, but have not yet heard back.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Getting Fired At Yahoo: A Twitter Log — Yahoo's Ryan Kuder was canned today. A drag for him, but a gift for the rest of us—because he Twittered it. A new form of literature is in the making... Y! layoffs today, I'm “impacted”. I'm heading into work to pack my desk …
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The FASTForward Blog, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines, PE HUB and The WebGuild Blog
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Just got laid off at Yahoo — Well, the law of continuous revolution just gave me a good shove. — Today is my last day at Yahoo and the start of something new. — What? No idea, yet. — I'm definitely interested in hearing about both short term and longer term consulting opportunities …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Brickhouse Head Leaves Yahoo — Salim Ismail, who has led Yahoo Brickhouse since since March 2007, left the company today as part of broader layoffs at Yahoo. Layoff packages were being offered, he said, and he left voluntarily. — Brickhouse is based in San Francisco and shares office space …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
CNET News.com:
Yahoo pink slips arrive — As expected, Yahoo lays off more than 1,000, but details are not disclosed. — Senate shields phone companies from spy lawsuits — update Civil liberties groups bash vote as “get-out-of-jail-free card” for AT&T and others accused of illegally opening their networks to the feds.
Salim / You've Got Ismail!:
Hoo-Ya - I take the package — Well, after a bunch of soul-searching, I'm leaving Yahoo. I have a couple of startups that I want to look at and I took the opportunity to take a decent package. The folks at Yahoo have been fabulous and I've got a very nice and very gracious goodbye.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo And News Corp. Continue Marathon Discussions; Possible Bid To Counter Microsoft — At the start of the Microsoft/Yahoo saga we reported that News Corp. was scrambling to put together a bid to compete with Microsoft, but backed down because they were unable to find outside funding …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo-News Corp Still Talking, Deal Still Possible — We hear from two sources that News Corp (NWS) and Yahoo (YHOO) are still discussing a possible transaction, designed to create an alternative to a Microsoft (MSFT) takeover. (Or at least the appearance of one).
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Search Engine Land, Between the Lines, Voices, Yahoo! Finance, Screenwerk, Valleywag and HipMojo.com
Techmeme News:
New Twitter and RSS “Firehose” feeds include all headlines — High-volume, “complete” RSS feeds are available now for Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum, and Ballbug. For years, the RSS feed for each site has included the day's most important 20-30 headlines, typically those placed “above the fold”.
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The Last Podcast
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Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 Beta 3 now available for download — Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 3 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only. — Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download.
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All News Feeds, Security Watch, Compiler, CyberNet, greg hughes, Mozilla Links, Hardware 2.0, Mashable! and Insanely Great Mac
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alarm:clock:
Michael Dell Pays $150M For His Bro's Startup — At a time when Michael Dell has regained control over the helm at the firm he has founded, it seems dicey for him to close a deal that smells of nepotism. But Dell seems to taunt the critics with this one. — Dell says it will pay $155M …
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Flawed Software Upgrade Caused BlackBerry Malfunction — OTTAWA — As was the case with last year's BlackBerry service failure, Research In Motion blamed a flawed software upgrade for shutting down wireless e-mail messages to millions of its North American subscribers for about three hours on Monday.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
RIM's CEO downplays BlackBerry outage — BARCELONA—Research In Motion's co-chief executive officer, James Balsillie, doesn't seem too worried that the second major outage of the company's BlackBerry service in 10 months could hurt its reputation with corporate customers.
AppleInsider:
Apple releases Apple TV “Take 2” software update — Apple on Tuesday quietly released its much-anticipated Apple TV “Take 2” software update, which introduces a brand new on-sreen interface and allows users to rent high definition movies directly from their widescreen TVs.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Push for Yahoo Tie-Up Wanes — Google's enthusiasm has waned in recent days for a potential advertising tie-up that could help Yahoo try to thwart Microsoft's unsolicited offer for Yahoo.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened” Says Source — Following up to our post last week talking about a possible acquisition of social network site Bebo: A high level source has told us that Bebo has been in discussions via their investment bank, Allen & Co. …
